DENVER (AP) - University of Denver basketball coach Jeff Wulbrun landed a big name with the signing of Coban Porter, who's the younger brother of Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. and Memphis Grizzlies big man Jontay Porter.
Coban Porter signed a national letter of intent Friday, the school announced ...
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There will be no goal clips, lineup announcements, banter between clubs or even title celebrations.
Four days of silence across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by soccer leagues, clubs and players in England was beginning on Friday in a protest against racist abuse that has been adopted more widely.
Such is ...
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Wayne Rooney the player found ways to score. Wayne Rooney the manager has hit a wall.
The former Manchester United striker finds himself in a relegation battle in England's second division as Derby's losses pile up.
The club that Rooney took over first on an interim basis as player-coach and ...
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AMSTERDAM (AP) - Ajax extended the contract of coach Erik ten Hag on Friday amid speculation he was a target for Tottenham after Jose Mourinho was fired.
Ten Hag added one year to a deal that now runs through the 2022-23 season, Ajax said in a statement.
Under Ten Hag, ...
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LONDON (AP) - European Union regulators are accusing Apple of violating the bloc's antitrust rules, alleging that the company distorts competition for music streaming through rules for its App Store.
The EU's executive Commission said Friday it objected to Apple's way of doing business, which it said ends up ...
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LONDON (AP) - Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry was reluctant to read the script of "Limbo."
He was concerned the film, about refugees waiting on a remote Scottish island for residency, would involve established tropes about a Western savior coming to the rescue.
Instead, it made him reach for the ...
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Justin Fields fell out of the top ten. Mac Jones did, as well.
But despite two of the top five quarterbacks unexpectedly sliding, Washington ultimately didn’t move up to grab a long-term answer at the position during the first round of the NFL draft — selecting Kentucky linebacker Jamin Davis ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Hideki Matsuyama received the Prime Minister's Award in Tokyo on Friday for winning the Masters golf tournament.
He was the first Japanese winner at Augusta National, the famous American club.
Matsuyama won the low amateur title at the 2011 Masters just weeks after the earthquake, tsunami and ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The West Virginia Quilts and Wall Hangings Juried Exhibition opens its 40th annual show next month.
The free exhibition opens May 28 and continues through Sept. 23.
The West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History is accepting entries until 4 p.m. Monday. They can be ...
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SINGAPORE (AP) - Hee Young Park birdied her final hole Friday to move into a second-round tie for the lead with Inbee Park at the LGPA Tour's HSBC Women's World Championship on a steamy Tanjong course at Sentosa Golf Club.
Hee Young Park, who shot 68, and world No. 2-ranked ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Asian shares were mostly lower Friday amid uncertainty about the prospects for a global economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped 0.7% in afternoon trading to 28,844.39. South Korea's Kospi slipped 0.9% to 3,146.04. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.9% to 7,018.50. Hong ...
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ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - Deirdre Freeman walks the mile from her home, lugging a large, colorful painting and tote bag with her hammer and nails. Her destination is a telephone pole at a busy intersection, where she will hang her largest "heartwork" painting yet.
Her goal is simple: to spread ...
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NYON, Switzerland (AP) - The Champions League final in Istanbul on May 29 should not be affected by a near three-week lockdown in Turkey to curb COVID-19 cases, UEFA said on Thursday.
Turkey has imposed a "full lockdown" from Thursday evening which ends on May 17 after the holy month ...
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) - Workers at a Massachusetts museum have voted to join a union.
Employees at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams approved affiliating with UAW Local 2110 by a 53-15 vote, according to a count conducted Wednesday by the National Labor Relations Board, The ...
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Engineers are trying to determine why a ceiling collapsed at Huntsville's event center moments before a hockey game started.
A portico collapsed at the Von Braun Center on Tuesday before the Huntsville Havoc game, Al.com reported.
"Nobody was hurt, thankfully," spokeswoman Samantha Nielsen said.
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Neymar was delving deep into his box of tricks, the marauding Kylian Mbappe had that glint in his eye, and Manchester City's players had been struck by a rare case of timidity.
Thirty minutes into the Champions League semifinal and the scenario Pep Guardiola had feared before the match was ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea began administering fast-track COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday to athletes, coaches and others expected to attend the Tokyo Olympics.
The Korean Sport and Olympic Committee said the first group of about 100 people received the first doses at a state-run hospital in Seoul at ...
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BEIJING (AP) - A dozen vessels on Thursday are at work cleaning up about 400 tons of oil that spilled into the sea from a tanker following a collision off one of China's busiest ports, the maritime safety agency said.
The tanker A Symphony was struck Tuesday by a cargo ...
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LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) - American coach Jesse Marsch will take over at German soccer team Leipzig next season.
The Bundesliga club said Thursday that Marsch will switch from sister club Red Bull Salzburg on a two-year contract until June 2023.
Marsch will take over from Julian Nagelsmann, who agreed Tuesday ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Police in West Virginia have issued an arrest warrant for a teenager in the fatal shooting of a high school student.
Charleston Police Chief Tyke Hunt said Wednesday a warrant for first-degree murder was issued for Dekotis Thomas, 19, of South Charleston, in the April 7 ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia Supreme Court justices are taking part in Law Day activities next week.
The justices will participate in a virtual awards ceremony Monday for the state bar's Women in the Profession Committee's Law Day student contests, the court said in a news release.
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WEST LEBANON, N.H. (AP) - Checkered and striped in bright colors, small wooden bird houses are hanging outside a public library in West Lebanon as a part of a public art project,
"The idea is just to start something that people can participate in and add to," said Kim Wenger ...
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MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) - Life has not been easy for Ke'Ontae Barnes, but the 18-year-old senior at Muskegon Orchard View has learned some virtues along such as diligence and patience.
These days, he's full of gratitude. The 6-foot shooting guard has been voted The Associated Press Division 2 Player of ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Amid signs pointing "To Elevator" and advising drivers to "Take Parking Ticket With You," the Rhinemaidens lament the theft of their gold, Siegfried is murdered, and Brünnhilde drives off in a red Mustang convertible to redeem the world.
Welcome to opera in an underground parking garage.
...LONDON (AP) - Prince Charles said Wednesday that he is "deeply saddened" by the surge in coronavirus deaths in India.
He urged the public to back an appeal to buy oxygen equipment for the stricken nation.
In a message to the people of India, the heir to the throne said: ...
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NEWPORT, Wales (AP) - Wales winger George North is out of contention for the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa after announcing Wednesday he has a serious knee injury.
North was hurt during Ospreys' victory over Cardiff Blues in the Pro 14 cup competition last weekend and is ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Former Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs appeared in court on Wednesday and denied assaulting two women, including a former girlfriend who is he accused of coercively controlling with violence.
The 47-year-old Giggs entered the not guilty pleas from the dock at Manchester Magistrates' Court in his ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Sony's January-March profit zoomed eight-fold to 107 billion yen ($982 million) from a year earlier as people stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic turned to the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's video games and other visual content.
Sony Corp. reported a record profit of 1.17 ...
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A look at what's happening around the majors today:
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In a matchup of promising rookies, Padres lefty Ryan Weathers starts against Arizona righty Taylor Widener in Phoenix.
The 21-year-old Weathers is 1-0 with an 0.59 ERA in five games, two of them starts, this season. He made ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Grammy Museum will reopen next month after being closed for more than a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The museum in downtown Los Angeles announced Tuesday that it will be open to the public on May 21. The museum will launch with three new ...
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PARIS (AP) - Kylian Mbappé is fit. Neymar is happy.
With its pair of strikers feeling well, Paris Saint-Germain couldn't be in much better shape heading into the Champions League semifinals against Manchester City on Wednesday.
Mbappé has shaken off a minor thigh injury and is fit for the clash ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Liverpool reported a pre-tax loss of 46 million pounds ($64 million) for the last financial year, mainly because of the impact the coronavirus outbreak had on the English champion's media revenue and matchday income.
The losses for the financial year ending May 2020, a period covering ...
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BEIJING (AP) - A tanker spilled oil into the sea off one of China's busiest ports Tuesday after a collision with another vessel, the government and a ship tracking company reported.
The A Symphony collided early Tuesday with a cargo vessel, the Sea Justice, while approaching Qingdao, according to ...
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SYDNEY (AP) - Australian athletes and support staff preparing for the Tokyo Olympics will be given priority for vaccines.
The Australian government on Tuesday said members of the Olympic team would be vaccinated under a priority group which includes health-care workers, Indigenous people aged over 55 and people older than ...
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AMSTERDAM (AP) - The Dutch celebrated their king's birthday Tuesday in muted fashion as a coronavirus lockdown prevented large-scale street parties for the second year running.
This year, the national holiday comes with lockdown fatigue rising and a day before an easing of some restrictions even though hospitals are having ...
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MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich has hired Julian Nagelsmann to replace the departing Hansi Flick as coach for next season, the club said Tuesday.
The 33-year-old Leipzig coach will move to Bayern on July 1 with a contract that runs through 2026. Bayern said it agreed to terminate Flick's contract ...
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - While Damian Lillard doesn't believe that what's troubling the Trail Blazers is irreparable, the reality is that time is running out for Portland to snap out of its slump.
Portland has lost five straight games and nine of the last 11 to fall to seventh ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jesse Winker's two-run homer in the 10th inning helped the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 Monday night to snap a seven-game losing streak.
Winker led off the 10th by taking Kenley Jansen's slider over the wall in left field with Alex Blandino on ...
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Human and four-legged performers alike are preparing to bring Hungary's largest traveling circus back on the road after the COVID-19 pandemic halted its shows for more than a year.
From its offseason home in Sada, a small village just outside the capital, Budapest, the Florian Richter ...
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Super Group, a British company that owns a sports betting and an online casino company, is seeking to enter the fast-growing U.S. market.
The company said Sunday it is joining with Sports Entertainment Acquisition Corp., in a deal expected to close in the second ...
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Two foundations that serve the needy achieved the kind of spotlight at Sunday's night's Academy Awards telecast that any nonprofit yearns for: A shout-out from a famous celebrity to the 10 million or more people estimated to be watching the Oscars from home.
Time will tell whether the Motion Picture ...
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"Sooley," by John Grisham (Doubleday)
When you've written 35 novels and are working on a streak of 43 consecutive No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, you can write abut whatever you want. That's probably the simplest way to explain why John Grisham's latest is a basketball story and doesn't ...
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It started with Jose Mourinho. Then came Diego Simeone, twice, followed by Jurgen Klopp, Carlo Ancelotti and, most recently, Pep Guardiola.
Five of the sharpest coaching minds in European soccer, all outwitted by Thomas Tuchel since the German took charge of Chelsea in late January.
Indeed, Tuchel's team didn't even ...
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Director and producer Tyler Perry called on Americans to reject hate during his Oscars acceptance speech Sunday, saying healing for the country can happen when people "meet in the middle" and reserve their judgment toward others.
Mr. Perry accepted the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy Awards for his multiple philanthropy efforts in ...
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AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) - Bundesliga club Augsburg fired coach Heiko Herrlich on Monday after a poor run of results left the team sliding toward the relegation zone.
Augsburg didn't win any of its last four games under Herrlich and is in 13th place in the 18-team league, four points above ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A pair of prototype Nikes worn by Kanye West during his performances of "Hey Mama" and "Stronger" at the Grammy Awards in 2008 has shattered the record for a pair of sneakers ever sold.
Sotheby's announced Monday that West's so-called "Grammy Worn" Nike Air Yeezy 1 ...
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MADRID (AP) - Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane wants nothing to do with the Super League.
Last week, the Spanish club was doing everything possible to make the controversial breakaway competition happen, attracting attention to it and trying to convince everyone it was a good idea.
Now, on the eve ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Legend: Genghis Khan came up with an early concept for hamburgers that involved tenderizing meat scraps under the saddles of horses as his Golden Horde ransacked its way to China back in the 13th century.
Fact: Nobody knows for sure who first came up with putting ...
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Bay Area baseball is off to some start this season.
The Oakland Athletics reeled off 13 straight wins and lead the AL West, even after their streak was snapped by Baltimore on Sunday. Meanwhile, the San Francisco Giants have quietly played pretty well themselves. Although the Dodgers and Padres have ...
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Wait. What?
If that's what you yelled at the TV during the final moments of Sunday's Oscars, you weren't alone. In what may have been the most abrupt ending since that closing shot of "The Sopranos," TV audiences expecting an emotional finale crowning the late Chadwick Boseman as best actor ...
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About the only certainty in the confounding 2021 NFL draft is Trevor Lawrence going to the Jaguars with the first overall pick.
Beyond that, it's really anybody's guess following the most unorthodox of run-ups to the league's annual parade of prospects.
COVID-19 opt-outs and shortened or shelved seasons in the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The weekend at movie theaters featured something not seen for a while: a genuine box-office battle.
Warner Bros.' "Mortal Kombat" reboot and the Japanese anime film "Demon Slayer: Mugen Train" both vied for the top spot at the North American box office, with "Mortal Kombat" ...
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LEEDS, England (AP) - Promoted Leeds continued its exploits against the Premier League's "Big Six" on Sunday with a 0-0 draw against Manchester United.
Leeds, which previously claimed a point against Liverpool after a 2-1 win at Manchester City, stretched its unbeaten run to six games as it moved ninth ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Leipzig kept Bundesliga leader Bayern Munich waiting for its title with a 2-0 win over 10-man Stuttgart on Sunday.
Leipzig cut the gap on Bayern to seven points with three rounds remaining and can technically still win the title if Bayern follows its surprise 2-1 loss at ...
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DERIDDER, La. (AP) - A century-old Louisiana jail called the Gothic Hanging Jail is back open for tours, except when it's raining.
The Beauregard Parish Tourist Commission had halted daytime and lantern tours of the 107-year-old jail with a third-floor gallows because of the coronavirus pandemic and damage from ...
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WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) - Chris Wood scored a first-half hat trick and set up the other goal for Burnley to rout Wolverhampton 4-0 in the Premier League on Sunday.
The New Zealand international opened the scoring at Molineux in the 15th minute with a low shot inside the far post ...
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's new poet laureate is a professor and published author.
Gov. Tate Reeves and his wife, Elee, named Catherine Pierce of Starkville to the literary post for the next four years.
"We are confident Dr. Pierce will continue to foster a love of poetry and literature ...
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CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's national team coach has tested positive for the coronavirus, the country's soccer association announced Sunday.
Hossam el-Badry was diagnosed with COVID-19 after his daughter tested positive earlier this month, the Egyptian Football Association said in a statement. He has been isolated at his home, it said.
...CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - They've taken it into juvenile detention centers, onto film and over television, but this fall, University of Virginia students and their professor will take Russian literature into the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
The program - Books Behind Bars: Life, Literature, and Leadership - will bring UVa students ...
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A look at what's happening around the majors today:
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Oakland goes for its 14th consecutive victory when the Athletics take on Baltimore at Camden Yards. Jesús Luzardo (1-1, 5.89 ERA) is on the mound as the A's look to complete a three-game sweep.
...TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Things were looking down for Lionel Barnes in late 2018. He'd been let go from his information technology job in Plant City. A rocky relationship had ended. He was soon sleeping in his 20-year-old Mercedes with his teenage son, Lionel Jr.
He'd park in front of ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Bayern Munich missed the chance to clinch the Bundesliga title when it lost at relegation-threatened Mainz 2-1 on Saturday.
First-half goals from Jonathan Burkardt and Robin Quaison put Bayern's title celebrations on hold and lifted Mainz five points clear of the relegation zone after a remarkable turnaround ...
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - Singer Matiu Walters grinned as he gazed out over 50,000 damp but delirious fans and said those magic words: "So, what's up Eden Park?"
While much of the world remains hunkered down, the band Six60 has been playing to huge crowds in New Zealand, where ...
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ROME (AP) - Milva, one of Italy's most popular singers in the '60s and '70s who was also beloved by many fans abroad, died Saturday at her home in Milan. She was 81.
In announcing her death, Italy's Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said Milva's versatile voice "stirred deep emotions ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A woman has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl outside a Kansas City high school as the teen left a basketball game.
Twenty-four-year-old Jamya Norfleet was sentenced Friday for second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon in ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Liverpool conceded a goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time to draw 1-1 with Newcastle in the Premier League on Saturday in a blow to its chances of qualifying for the Champions League.
Joe Willock's shot deflected into the corner off the stretched leg of ...
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) - Albania's president has accused the U.S. ambassador of intervening in the small European country's internal affairs by supporting its prime minister in an upcoming parliamentary election.
President Ilir Meta spoke harshly about Ambassador Yuri Kim during a television talk show on Friday night and called on ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Banners bearing slogans calling for the removal of Liverpool's American ownership were on view outside Anfield before the team's Premier League match against Newcastle as English soccer fans continued to show their dissatisfaction about the aborted Super League project on Saturday.
The protests on Anfield Road ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Henry John Heinz III was a man in his prime.
The 52-year-old U.S. senator and heir to the H.J. Heinz food empire had everything going for him April 4, 1991, the morning he climbed aboard a small, twin-propeller plane in Williamsport. The short flight to Philadelphia was ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Rapper DMX will be mourned at a memorial with family and close friends at the Barclays Center in New York.
The memorial will be held for him at the arena in Brooklyn on Saturday at 4 p.m. EST. The event will be closed to the public ...
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Paige Windsor, a longtime journalist who currently leads the digital team at Better Homes & Gardens, has been named Alabama state editor for Gannett Co., working as executive editor of the Montgomery Advertiser while also overseeing The Gadsden Times and The Tuscaloosa News.
Windsor, a graduate ...
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - The founder of Epic Games is donating a large stretch of North Carolina's Appalachian highlands to be preserved as a haven for wildlife.
The Asheville-based nonprofit Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy announced the donation of 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands by Tim Sweeney, the founder ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pittsburgh suburb on Friday honored pro wrestler Bruno Sammartino by renaming a park in the longtime resident's honor.
Sangree Park in Ross Township will be known as Sammartino Park, after the man who lived in the community for more than 50 years.
Sammartino appeared in the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Gal Gadot is using her Hollywood starpower to spotlight remarkable women from around the world.
The "Wonder Woman" actor is host and executive producer of a new documentary series that follows six women who made a positive impact on their communities despite dealing with poverty, violence, ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Only three months before the postponed Olympics are set to open, Tokyo and Japan's second largest metropolitan area of Osaka have been placed under emergency orders aimed at stemming surging cases of the coronavirus.
The measures, which take place during Japan's "golden week" holiday period, are meant ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Japan on Friday declared a state of emergency to curb a rapid coronavirus resurgence, the third since the pandemic began. The measures in parts of Japan, including Tokyo, have so far failed to curb infections caused by a more contagious new variant of the virus.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky State Fair will be open to the public this year, officials said.
The Kentucky State Fair Board voted Thursday to hold the event Aug. 19-29, according to a statement from Kentucky Venues. Tickets will go on sale in July.
Last year, the event was ...
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LONDON (AP) - Noah Thomas saw his name in lights, and then the lights went out.
The young actor was still in drama school when he was cast to play the lead role in the London West End musical "Everybody's Talking About Jamie." Thomas made his professional debut in early ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jake Cronenworth barely managed to knock down Sheldon Neuse's vicious 105-mph grounder. He recovered and relayed to Fernando Tatis Jr., who somehow dragged his foot sideways over the bag while loading up for a desperate throw that beat Neuse to first by an eyelash.
Although it's ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Jersey Shore" star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro was arrested Thursday for investigation of felony domestic violence, police said.
Ortiz-Magro, 35, was arrested in the coastal Playa del Rey section of Los Angeles, LAPD Officer William Cooper said.
Police said Ortiz-Magro was arrested on suspicion of violating ...
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ATLANTA (AP) - A comedian called it racial profiling, but a police department working at Atlanta's airport describes what happened as a "consensual encounter."
Comedian Eric Andre on Wednesday told his 700,000-plus Twitter followers that he believed he had been racially profiled when officers pulled him aside in a terminal ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - A man is trying to become the second person to kayak alone from California to Hawaii.
Cyril Derreumaux, 44, will attempt to become the first person since 1987 to pull off the feat, Hawaii News Now reported Wednesday.
"I'm an avid paddler, outrigger paddler, kayaker and surfski ...
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STORRS, Conn. (AP) - Hartford women's basketball coach Morgan Valley has left the school to become an assistant at UConn, her alma mater.
Valley replaces Shea Ralph, who left the Huskies last week to become head coach at Vanderbilt.
Valley played at UConn from 2000 to 2004, where she ...
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LONDON (AP) - Tournaments in Italy and Germany were added to the WTA's 2021 calendar on Thursday.
The Emilia Romagna Open will be staged in Parma, northern Italy, in the week starting May 17 and includes singles and doubles draws.
Also added to the schedule was the Hamburg European Open, ...
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DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) - With Bayern Munich on the verge of winning yet another German league title, the problems are just beginning.
Bayern can clinch its record-extending ninth consecutive title on Saturday against Mainz, with three more games still to go. At the same time, Robert Lewandowski is chasing the ...
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LONDON (AP) - British music's leading prize night next month will feature an audience of 4,000 people, in what will be the first major indoor music event in the country to welcome back a live audience since the coronavirus pandemic erupted more than a year ago.
The Brit Awards said ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - A competitive virtual sports event was launched Thursday by the International Olympic Committee.
The Olympic Virtual Series will include five sports - baseball, cycling, auto racing, rowing and sailing - and runs from May 13 to June 23. The Tokyo Olympics open on July 23.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Philip Marlowe, the most self-reliant of fictional detectives, had no boss and no one to boss around. His creator, Raymond Chandler, needed some help.
"Advice to a Secretary," a rarely seen essay published this week in the spring issue of the literary quarterly The Strand ...
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CHARLEROI, Belgium (AP) - Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar is out of the Flèche Wallonne one-day race Wednesday after his UAE Team Emirates squad withdrew following two positive tests for the coronavirus, even though the team was previously vaccinated.
The team said rider Diego Ulissi and an unidentified staff ...
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LONDON (AP) - After the aborted attempt to form a European Super League, Liverpool owner John Henry attempted to regain the trust of fans with an apology video on Wednesday.
The same public contrition was yet to come from all six of the Premier League clubs who faced two days ...
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Kate Schneider from Ireland has been named the new Mrs. World after the reigning titleholder resigned following an on-stage fracas in which she pulled the crown off the head of the winner of the Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant, organizers said.
Mrs. World Inc. said ...
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ZURICH (AP) - Draw Wednesday for the soccer tournaments at the Tokyo Olympics:
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Group A: Japan, South Africa, Mexico, France.
Group B: New Zealand, South Korea, Honduras, Romania.
Group C: Egypt, Spain, Argentina, Australia.
Group D: Brazil, Germany, Ivory Coast, Saudi Arabia.
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Group E: Japan, Canada, Britain, ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A large-scale public artwork composed of giant sheets of jute sacks will be on display at Fisk University through May 31 as part of an initiative to promote social justice.
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama's display includes the sacks used in Ghana in West Africa for the ...
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LONDON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II is marking her 95th birthday in a low-key fashion at Windsor Castle, just days after the funeral of her husband, Prince Philip.
Some members of the royal family are expected to be with the queen on Wednesday. Her birthday falls within the two-week royal ...
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - On top of coronavirus quarantining, Adrianna Franch had to spend four long weeks of last season just trying to stay off her injured right knee.
It was not an easy task for the 30-year-old Portland Thorns goalkeeper known for her boundless energy.
"For us ...
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A few years from now, Brandt Clarke might be able to brag he took the Auston Matthews path to the NHL by playing in Europe during his draft year.
"He kind of went over voluntarily," Clarke said. "I went over out of desperation."
Clarke and other 2021 draft-eligible prospects ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The multimillion-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise is reaching for a younger demographic.
Chicken Soup for the Soul has reached a partnership with the children's publisher Charlesbridge for two new series of books, the two publishers announced Tuesday. Chicken Soup for the Soul Babies ...
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MADRID (AP) - As Real Madrid kept winning European title after European title, club president Florentino Pérez never stopped working on a side project he believed was a perfect fit for the Spanish powerhouse.
Pérez kept at it, constantly working behind the scenes to gather support. He was even accused ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - An eclectic group of people - including LeBron James, James Corden, Jennifer Garner and Sir David Attenborough - have nabbed nominations for this year's Webby Awards, recognizing the best internet content and creators.
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced the nominees on Tuesday, ...
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MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) - In a direct appeal to the owners of the English clubs in the Super League project, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin urged them Tuesday to change their minds out of respect for soccer fans.
Ceferin both cajoled and criticized the six-club English group - made up of ...
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Chelsea can climb above Leicester and West Ham and into third place in the Premier League with a win against Brighton at Stamford Bridge. The race for Champions League qualification has been muddied, however, by the creation of a ...
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Ryan Mason will lead Tottenham into the English League Cup final against Manchester City on Sunday as the youngest manager in the club's history after being installed as the replacement for the fired Jose Mourinho until the end of the season.
The 29-year-old Mason retired from playing in 2018 on ...
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Kristie Keleshian was a shy middle schooler when she signed up for Write on Sports because her brother had joined.
Keleshian now is an accomplished journalist who credits the program for providing the confidence and impetus for her career.
Write on Sports, now in its 16th year, helps middle ...
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LONDON (AP) - Now that the Royal Family has said farewell to Prince Philip, attention will turn to Queen Elizabeth II's 95th birthday on Wednesday and, in coming months, the celebrations marking her 70 years on the throne.
This combination of events is reminding the United Kingdom that the reign ...
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If this season was like most others, Washington, Chicago and Toronto would be pretty much out of the race by now.
The Wizards were 17-32 not that long ago and have not spent one single day over .500 in the last three seasons. The Bulls just had a stretch where ...
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MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) - UEFA says players at Super League clubs will be banned from national teams, including for Euro 2020 and World Cup.
NEW YORK (AP) - A stalker who claims pop star Taylor Swift is communicating with him on social media was arrested on a trespassing charge after trying to break into the singer's Manhattan apartment, police said Monday.
Hanks Johnson, 52, was arrested at 8:30 p.m. Saturday after a 911 caller ...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 25-May 1:
April 25: Actor Al Pacino is 81. "Dancing With the Stars" judge Len Goodman is 77. Bassist Stu Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revisited is 76. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA is 76. Actor Talia Shire is 76. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn ("The ...
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DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) - The new Super League soccer competition in Europe is, surprisingly, missing the names of Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain.
Last year's Champions League finalists were noted absentees from the elite clubs announced in the league's formation on Sunday.
Bayern would face difficulties convincing its fans ...
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As a slew of foreign-owned clubs announced plans to rip up European soccer by forming a breakaway Super League, one club with North American leadership was happy to announce its intention to keep the status quo.
"Despite the club's two 4-0 victories this week, we can confirm that we will ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Fisk University has received a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help make the school's art more accessible to students and the community.
The two-year grant includes funding for a registrar and collection manager, as well as gallery coordinators, according to a ...
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LONDON (AP) - The 12 European clubs pursuing a Super League have told the leaders of FIFA and UEFA that legal action is already being pursued to stop them from action intended to thwart the launch of the breakaway competition, according to a letter obtained Monday by The Associated Press. ...
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A look at what's happening around the majors on today:
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The White Sox and Red Sox begin at 11:05 a.m. at Fenway Park in the annual Patriots' Day game. Could mean early-morning batting practice for J.D Martinez and José Abreu.
The event usually coincides with the Boston ...
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Like many young football players growing up in North Carolina, Chase Rice had his sights set on the NFL. After an outstanding sophomore season with the Tar Heels, that goal seemed realistic.
Then the linebacker who tore up the ACC in 2006 tore up his left ankle in the season ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Washington Nationals placed right-handed pitcher Stephen Strasburg on the 10-day injured list Sunday because of right shoulder inflammation.
The 2019 World Series MVP was set to start against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He will now be replaced by right-hander Paolo Espino after the Nationals selected his contract. ...
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ROME, Ga. (AP) - An advisory committee says that a northwest Georgia statue of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest should be placed inside a local museum.
The statue of Forrest, credited with being a founder of the Ku Klux Klan, was removed from its base in Rome's Myrtle Hill Cemetery ...
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - For the past five years, the Tucson nonprofit Homestretch Foundation has provided housing to more than 70 female athletes from 17 countries.
The "Stretchies" pursue careers in endurance sports, including cycling, triathlon, swimming or running, according to the Arizona Daily Star.
Homestretch typically houses six ...
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MONACO (AP) - Stefanos Tsitsipas won the Monte Carlo Masters without dropping a set, beating Andrey Rublev 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday for his first title this year and sixth overall.
Fourth-seeded Tsitsipas was in dominant form as he edged 4-3 ahead of the sixth-seeded Russian in their career meetings, having ...
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DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) - When his favorite spatula broke, Orran Scruggs decided to recreate it from some wood he had on hand.
"I took on the task of making it myself and it came out looking really good," Scruggs said.
Scruggs didn't have much woodworking experience beyond helping his friend ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - When Fatima M. Smith and two of her friends told parents and police that their cheerleading coach had sexually abused them, they were ostracized by the families of their teammates.
Years later, in high school, that experience - the death threats, name-calling and testifying in a ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Organizers of a fireworks show that lights up downtown Indianapolis each July Fourth are looking for a new pyrotechnics launch site a year after the pandemic canceled the long-running event.
Downtown Indy needs to find a new location because longtime host Regions Tower announced Wednesday it could ...
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SYDNEY (AP) - No masks. No worries. For now.
Dani Stevens won a record 14th national title in the women's discus throw on Sunday to earn her spot on the Australian team for a fourth Olympics, less than a year after fearing a career-threatening neck injury could force her ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Sunday's Academy of Country Music Awards will feature some of the genre's biggest stars, though chart-toppers like Morgan Wallen and Luke Bryan won't be in the building.
Wallen, whose latest album and singles have found major success on both the country and pop charts, was declared ...
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - Indiana's second-largest city is bringing back a popular summer festival canceled last year by the pandemic, although this year's festivities won't include a parade.
Organizers of Fort Wayne's Three Rivers Festival said the festival's other events will go forward during its July 9-17 run and ...
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Twenty-seven paintings by three generations of Wyeths have been donated to the Farnsworth Art Museum, thanks to the late Betsy Wyeth.
The museum, which plans to display the paintings in a major exhibition beginning May 15, did not disclose the value of the gifts, the ...
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ROME (AP) - Roma defender Chris Smalling and his family were unharmed but "very shaken up" by an armed robbery inside their home in the Italian capital.
The former Manchester United player and his family were asleep early Friday when hooded men broke into their home and forced him at ...
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Events and reaction marking Prince Philip's funeral:
WINDSOR, England - Prince Philip's coffin has been moved from the royal family's private chapel at Windsor Castle to the castle's Inner Hall ahead of his funeral this afternoon.
Royal officials say the coffin is draped in Philip's personal standard, and topped with ...
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Events and reaction marking Prince Philip's funeral:
WINDSOR, England - Britain's royal family has released a montage of images in memory of Prince Philip, set to a poem by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.
"Patriarchs -- An Elegy" remembers Philip as a member of a generation who "fought ingenious wars, finagled ...
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Jacob deGrom and the Mets hope to finally play some baseball. New York has had four games in six days either postponed or suspended due to weather, including a snow out Friday night for the opener of their ...
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LONDON (AP) - This is the Order of Service for the funeral of Prince Philip on Saturday:
ORDER OF SERVICE
All stand. The Coffin is removed from the Land Rover and is carried to the West Steps where it rests at 3pm for the one minute National Silence.
The ...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Corey Seager hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer on Tim Hill's first pitch of the 12th inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 11-6 Friday night in a tense, entertaining first matchup this season between NL West rivals who have visions of deep ...
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -
About 20 years ago, Kimberly Resh stood before a Kids Gap cashier, her 6-year-old daughter Mikayla behind her, with her wheelchair and feeding tube. Mikayla had numerous severe physical and intellectual disabilities from birth, and medical complications from them.
"What's that?" came a young voice ...
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WINDSOR, England (AP) - Prince Philip will be remembered as a man of "courage, fortitude and faith" on Saturday, at a funeral that salutes both his service in the Royal Navy and his support for Queen Elizabeth II over three quarters of a century.
Philip, who died April 9 at ...
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MONACO (AP) - This year's Diamond League will open in Britain for the first time with Gateshead replacing Rabat as the season's first host city, organizers said Friday.
The season will start May 23 at Gateshead International Stadium after the event in the Moroccan capital was canceled because of coronavirus ...
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LONDON (AP) - British soldiers, sailors and air force personnel were making final preparations Friday for Prince Philip's funeral, a martial but personal service that will mark the passing of a royal patriarch who was also one of the dwindling number of veterans of World War II.
More than 700 ...
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A look at what's happening in European soccer on Friday:
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Everton and Tottenham are on the fringes of the race for Champions League qualification ahead of their meeting at Goodison Park in the Premier League. Tottenham is in seventh place, six points behind fourth-place Chelsea. Everton is a point ...
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LONDON (AP) - The coach of England's under-21s has quit after the team was eliminated from the European Championship at the group stage.
Aidy Boothroyd's contract was due to expire at the conclusion of the tournament in June but he has decided to leave early after five years in the ...
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Live music will return to Huntington for the first time in over a year on Friday for a concert that will mark the city's 150th anniversary.
The Herald-Dispatch reports that doors will open at John C. Edwards Stadium an hour before the performance begins at 7:30 ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The fastest man in the world, American sprinter Christian Coleman, will miss the Tokyo Olympics after failing Friday in an appeal to overturn his ban for missed doping tests.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport did cut the 100-meter world champion's ban from two years to ...
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TOKYO (AP) - The head of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday was again forced to assure the world that the postponed games will open in just over three months and not be canceled despite surging COVID-19 cases in Japan.
Organizing committee President Seiko Hashimoto was asked at a news ...
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas' capital city finally has a major league sports franchise to call its own.
All it took was a fight with another city over an attempted Major League Soccer team move before the granting of an expansion franchise, a bruising spat among Austin city council members ...
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OSAKA, Japan (AP) - Three-time world champion Nathan Chen beat two-time Olympic gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu in the men's short program at the figure skating World Team Trophy on Thursday.
Chen, winner of the past five U.S. titles, opened with a quadruple flip and added a triple axel and a ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - For a dozen and more reasons, Diane Warren would be overjoyed to win a best original song Oscar for her work in "The Life Ahead" starring Sophia Loren.
A trophy for the Italian-language film's song, "Io Si (Seen)," would be Warren's first after 11 previous Academy ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The NFL is bringing back the Draft-a-Thon that raised money last year for charities dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
The league announced Thursday that this year's three-day fundraiser coinciding with the NFL draft April 29-May 1 and hosted by NFL Network's Kay Adams will raise money ...
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - On the schedule, a home match against Eibar is easy to overlook.
But Atlético Madrid's meeting with the league's worst team has become a must-win match in its flagging title bid.
A run of poor results over the past two months has whittled Atlético's once double-digit ...
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Phil Foden had just finished his latest post-match chat with Erling Haaland when a message from the Manchester City forward's Twitter account made its way to another of the world's top soccer players.
"Are you ready," read the post to Kylian Mbappé, alongside a handshake emoji.
Ignoring who actually sent ...
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LONDON (AP) - Senior royals must wear civilian clothes to Prince Philip's funeral, defusing potential tensions over who would be allowed to don military uniforms.
Queen Elizabeth II's decision means Prince Harry won't risk being the only member of the royal family not in uniform during Saturday's funeral for his ...
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MADRID (AP) - One by one, Real Madrid defenders started going down.
First it was captain Sergio Ramos with a muscle injury. Then Raphael Varane with the coronavirus. Next was Lucas Vázquez with a knee problem.
The outlook was grim for the Spanish powerhouse ahead of the decisive game against ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Services are set for a West Virginia high school athlete who was fatally shot last week.
The funeral for Capital High School senior Kelvin "KJ" Taylor will be held Friday at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center, the city of Charleston announced. Visitation will be held ...
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MILAN (AP) - The great-grandchildren of Guccio Gucci, who founded the luxury fashion house that bears his name nearly a century ago in Florence, are appealing to filmmaker Ridley Scott to respect their family's legacy in a new film that focuses on a sensational murder.
"The House of Gucci," ...
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A youth basketball coach in Rhode Island has been charged with sexually molesting a 13-year-old player, police said.
Manuel Nunez, 43, was charged Tuesday with three counts of first-degree molestation.
The girl was a participating in a youth basketball league that was sponsored by and run ...
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A Cannon Ball man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for driving drunk and causing a crash that killed two people on the Standing Rock Reservation.
Matthew Wood, 37, pleaded guilty last December to two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths ...
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"Man. That ending!"
That's likely what you'd hear everyone saying on the way out of the multiplex - if we were all still going to the multiplex - after "Promising Young Woman." In an audacious and provocative film (nominated for five Oscars), there's no part more audacious and provocative than ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick is mulling his future following the team's Champions League elimination.
Flick, who has a contract through 2023 but has refused to say if he will fulfill it, has emerged as the leading candidate to take over the German national team once Joachim ...
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McDonald's will mandate worker training to combat harassment, discrimination and violence in its restaurants worldwide starting next year, the company said Wednesday.
The training requirement will impact 2 million workers at 39,000 stores worldwide.
"It's really important that we be very clear: a safe and respectful workplace where people feel ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The cover for Hillary Clinton's first novel will not be mistaken for those of her memoirs.
There's no smiling photograph like on the front of 2003's "Living History" or the more sober portrait of Clinton for "Hard Choices," which came out in 2014, or even ...
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LONDON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II has returned to royal duties, four days after the death of her husband, Prince Philip.
The 94-year-old British monarch attended a retirement ceremony for a senior royal official on Tuesday, according to the Court Circular, the official record of royal engagements.
The royal family ...
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LONDON (AP) - When Prince Philip's funeral takes place on Saturday, it will be more than a focal point for national mourning. Many will also be watching for any signs of reconciliation between Prince Harry and the royal family, especially with his elder brother Prince William.
It will be the ...
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Yankton Press & Dakotan. April 11, 2021.
Editorial: South Dakota Vaccinations And 'Fortunate' Timing?
The race to vaccinate Americans against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus took on curious dimensions for South Dakota this past weekend thanks to a national news story and a state press release.
On Saturday, CNN reported ...
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Jayson Tatum scored 32 points, including a key 3-pointer in the final moments, and the Boston Celtics held off the Portland Trail Blazers 116-115 on Tuesday night to extend their winning streak to four games.
Jaylen Brown added 24 points and Kemba Walker had 21 ...
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DORTMUND, Germany (AP) - It would be an "unbelievable story" to beat Manchester City and reach the Champions League semifinals despite injuries and other setbacks, Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic said Tuesday.
Dortmund forward Marco Reus and defender Mats Hummels remain injury doubts ahead of the second leg of the ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Georgia Szpilman's soprano voice resounds beautifully in the apartment's small living room, though the space lacks the acoustics of where her choir used to sing - Rio de Janeiro's majestic municipal theater, which has been closed for over a year because of the pandemic.
...STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The organization that oversees Sweden's national sports federations was hacked by Russian military intelligence in 2017-18, officials said Tuesday, in a data-breaching campaign that also affected some of the world's leading sporting bodies, including FIFA and the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Swedish prosecutors said the "repeated and ...
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Mike Tirico won't be anchoring NBC's primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics from the usual confines of a studio inside the International Broadcast Center. Instead, he will have a more picturesque location.
NBC announced Tuesday that Tirico will host from an outdoor location in downtown Tokyo. The set will be ...
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In 2020, I was looking forward to leaving Los Angeles for a socially distanced vacation in San Diego. I had stocked up on food, hand sanitizer, wipes and masks.
To stay safe and distant, I had booked two cottages near the beach with my travel credit card. My friend ...
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MÖNCHENGLADBACH, Germany (AP) - Eintracht Frankfurt coach Adi Hütter will walk away from almost certain Champions League qualification to move to Borussia Mönchengladbach for next season, the clubs said Tuesday.
Hütter will stay until the end of this season before using a clause in his contract with Frankfurt to leave ...
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LONDON - Britain says it has hit its target of giving at least one dose of vaccine to everyone over 50 and others in groups at highest risk from the coronavirus by mid-April.
The government says everyone in those groups has been offered a jab, and about 95% of eligible ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A popular summer symphony orchestra performance in West Virginia will return this year at a new location after it was canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra's Symphony Sunday is set for June 6 at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston. ...
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As teams gear up for the stretch run of the NBA regular season, it's injuries to key players - not just their unavailability due to COVID-19 - that is having the biggest effect on the playoff race in both conferences.
Still, preparing to play outside of the controlled atmosphere ...
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PUERTO RICO DE GRAN CANARIA, Spain (AP) - When hotel director Calvin Lucock and restaurant owner Unn Tove Saetran said goodbye to one of the last groups of migrants staying in one of the seaside resorts they manage in Spain's Canary Islands, the British-Norwegian couple didn't know when they would ...
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ROME (AP) - Italian police say they have recovered a 1st century Roman statue that was stolen from an archaeological site in 2011 and found in a Belgian antiques shop by two off-duty Italian art squad police officers.
An Italian businessman who used a Spanish pseudonym has been referred to ...
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The banged-up Boston Bruins are getting a boost for their late-season playoff push by acquiring forward Taylor Hall in a trade with the Buffalo Sabres reached early Monday.
The Bruins also added checking line forward Curtis Lazar, who has missed the past six games with an ...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 18-24:
April 18: Actor Robert Hooks is 84. Actor Hayley Mills is 75. Actor James Woods is 74. Actor Dorothy Lyman ("Mama's Family") is 74. Actor Cindy Pickett ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off") is 74. Keyboardist Walt Richmond of The Tractors is 74. Bassist ...
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